A BMC-300 design jackup rig ordered by West African Drilling Investment was launched recently at the Singapore yard of Promet Private Limited. When delivered in early 1984 the $50-million rig Nengue Sika ("silver island" in Gahonese) will be drilling for Elf Gabon off the coast of Gabon.
This mobile, self-elevating cantilever jackup rig will be capable of working in water depths up to 300 feet and drilling to a maximum depth of 25,000 feet. The hull platform measures 212 by 210 by 26 feet, and each of the three triangular, open-lattice truss legs is 423 feet long.
Prominent features of Nengue Sika include four levels of fully air-conditioned living quarters that can accommodate 95 people, galleys, two messrooms, hospital, radio room, and two recreation rooms.
On deck the rig has two cranes, each with a boom length of 110 feet, and a helideck that is capable of supporting the weight of a fully loaded Sikorsky S-61N helicopter.
The rig has been constructed to American Bureau of Shipping class and to International Maritime Organization standards.
A 7,500-mile tow from the Gulf of Mexico to West Africa marked the maiden voyage of Zapata Marine Service's new 82-foot steel mooring tug recently delivered by Halter Marine, Inc., New Orleans, La. The tug Mooring Service is now operating in West Africa, after her 53-day tow of the new 65-foot crewb
Systems have made the following executive appointments as the first part of a planned corporate reorganization to transfer the company's Europe and West Africa headquarters from Hounslow, Middlesex to Aberdeen, Scotland. Colin James has been appointed, manager, unmanned submersibles. Prior to this
oldest of all maritime risks: piracy. While piracy has been a concern in the maritime industry for centuries, a new hotspot has emerged off the coast of West Africa in the Gulf of Guinea. Specifically the industry is concerned about attacks occurring in the territorial waters of Benin, Nigeria, Togo and the
is the Gulf of Mexico, which accounts for more than one-third of the systems currently on order. Equally significant is the increased presence of West Africa as a destination for floating production systems. There are now as many systems on order for use off West Africa as for use in the North Sea
division, Tidewater Marine Service, Inc., has signed two multiyear contracts that will place 41 pieces of inland towing equipment in service in West Africa. The first contract signed with Noble Bawden Drilling (West Africa), Ltd., calls for Tidewater to provide 31 tugs and barges to service four marsh
, 28 percent of the FPUs in operation are situated off Northern Europe, 23 percent off Brazil, 20 percent in Southeast Asia/China, 10 percent off West Africa, nine percent in the Gulf of Mexico and seven percent off Australia. Current orders consist of 15 purpose built production systems, 6 production syst
Fugro Survey Limited carries out offshore subsea survey projects in the North West European Continental Shelf, Mediterranean, and West Africa regions. It is part of the geotechnical and geophysical services group Fugro and, more specifically, part of its Survey Division. The Aberdeen, UK, based subsidiary
senior division manager of the Harvey Fabrication and Marine Pipeline Divisions. W.D. Howell has been named vice president and general manager, West Africa Area, Oceanic Contractors, Inc. Mr. Howell joined the company in 1971 as a field engineer. He became the manager of the marine pipeline operations
Tidewater Marine Service, Inc., Tidewater Inc.'s marine subsidiary, has outfitted one of its supply vessels for special service off the coast of West Africa for Nigerian AGIP Oil Co., Ltd., a venture of the national oil companies of Nigeria and Italy. According to Richard M. Currence, president
Construction and Babcock & Wilcox operating units. H.R. Reeves, senior vice president and group executive of Marine Construction's North Sea and West Africa Operations, will become Babcock & Wilcox's senior vice president and group executive, construction and tubular products, a newly instituted
demand for offshore terminal support work. Earlier this year, Seabulk announced the addition of a newbuild Platform Supply Vessel (PSV) to its West Africa fleet — Seabulk Africa, two newbuild bareboat charters — AHTS Seabulk Badamyar and PSV Seabulk Nilar — for Indonesia, a new line-handler for
MARKETS FPSO technology dominates the region’s FPS demand. duction and storage of low and zero emission energy carriers, In all, 18 countries in West and East Africa are expected such as methanol and ammonia. One exciting development to receive new FPSOs, FLNGs and FPUs between 2024 and leverages
motion, strikes, riots, and looting, is a new top ? ve risk for the marine and shipping industry this year at 23%. Businesses and their supply chains face considerable geo- political risks with war in Ukraine, con? ict in the Middle East, and ongoing tensions around the world. Political risk in 2023
vehicles (ROV), a spacious issues”. Gulf Island then sued Hornbeck, claiming the two moonpool and accommodations for 102 personnel. Yankee Freedom IV Key West, Fla.-based Yankee Freedom has ordered a new gearboxes will be 300-passenger, high-speed catamaran from Gladding-Hearn ZF model 8000. Shipbuilding
Feature Passenger Vessel Safety ume is even more eye-opening. The trade association In- ect seeking to signi? cantly reduce the risk of ? res on board terferry, which represents ferry operators and businesses ro-ro (roll on–roll off) ships. Corrigan said that Interferry’s worldwide, calculates that
believe in this type of training,” Gianelloni said. “To quote casualties be loss of life, loss of vessel or major environ- one of our instructors on the West Coast, Captain Christine mental incident,” Gianelloni said. “We aim to be a part of Klimkowski, ‘It gives us the ability to exercise our mariners
the main issues of fabrication, assembly, as well ning include Europe, which represents 60GW of potential;. as the issues with very deep waters on the West Coast of the Asia Paci? c and its 81GW of potential; and then North Amer- United States where we have one kilometer or more. [The ica, where we’re
took ? eet,” said Campe. northern Europe, the Mediterranean, a marinized Volvo Penta engine and As word started to get out, Campe North Africa and West Africa. modi? ed it so that it would be compli- and his team were ? elding inquiries The general cargo vessel, designed ant with class and ? ag to
? ll broader ocean intelligence gathering gaps. “Technologists are not always connected to their users and engineers and are not always marketers,” said West. “I think the valuable part of Synchro is that we’re working on that product market ? t, so someone is not working in a silo and that prototype stays
been fraught with hurdles and sinkholes. Synchro is a new co-designed testbed to synchronize and evolve tech solutions. Henry Ruhl, Director, and Amy West, Program Manager of Synchro discuss with the possibilities for technology developers. – By Greg Trauthwein s anyone in the subsea sector can attest
techniques are chosen, and the right ing. Machine learning in particular requires a large amount conclusions drawn. It’s very easy to get into a “Wild West” of “training” data or observations which we often don’t of people throwing around algorithms and data and coming have. The training step can be
our interview with Massa starting on page 30. The other story I found of particular interest was my interview with Henry Ruhl and Corporate Staff Amy West of Synchro. Synchro is a program designed to help take subsea technology Manager, Marketing Mark O’Malley from the workbench to commercialization
gas (GHG) emissions about 5% on a Japan-Aus- Makoto Yamaguchi, Chief Technical Of? cer Director tralia voyage and about 8% on a Japan-North America West General, Headquarters of Technology Innovation, MOL, Coast voyage, compared to a conventional vessel of the same 30 Maritime Reporter & Engineering
currently operates a large tug and barge ? eet, de- ployed primarily in the U.S. Gulf and along the East Coast, told Marine News, “We now serve the U.S. West Coast and are consistently transiting the Panama Canal Kirby’s new plug-in hybrid electric inland towing vessel Green Diamond will be time chartered
participant in the long-term charters of a trio of Tier 4 tugs, which will be serv- U.S. maritime sector, discussing its efforts, has said that: ing the West Coast. The boats use a design from Vancouver, “Testing out alternative fuels, ? nding operational ef? cien- B.C.’s Robert Allan Ltd., and were built
to dress to the UN. disappear from the minds of the people and the govern- A driving force behind the ability to continue the re- ments of the East and West, there are certain steps that search beyond the opening forum is the development of can be taken now”. Small Module Reactors (SMR). On September
tug.” “One thing that I’m big on here, just from my experi- In addition to its primary business building tugs, DMI ence, and being in yards up and down the West Coast, is also has a repair division as well as a marine services arm developing the next generation of shipyard workers,” Man- Diversi ed Marine
, TX, Paducah, KY, and Seattle, WA) and per- complex systems. It’s exciting to sit down with customers, un- sonnel located in key U.S. maritime hubs on the West Coast, derstand their speci? c needs, and con? gure an optimal propul- Gulf Coast, East Coast, and Inland Waterways. sion system solution for their
installed in U.S. waters by 2035, lantic segment, we see states with clear ambitions to increase which are expected to be supplied by the three dominant west- the use of renewable energy, reduce the amount of imported ern OEMS: Siemens, GE and Vestas. hydrocarbons, setting offshore wind procurement targets
, Devon, UK President/CEO: Matthew Quartley # of Employees: 112 www.valeport.co.uk Valeport is a manufacturer of oceanographic and hydro- land’s South West coast, the new technique is a collaboration graphic instruments. Based in the UK, the privately owned, of Valeport and HydroSurv, working with the
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for the calibra- ing concept was conducted during winter 2019-2020. This tion and validation (Cal/Val) of the new satellite. Onboard site was 300 km west of Monterey, California, in the heart the satellite, a next-generation altimeter using a wide-swath of the North Paci? c storm track, and at a water
US Navy and US Marine Corps defense cus- for the protection of ocean and humankind. So, the tag of IQ tomers, but San Diego will also be the center of our West Coast behind Greensea represents a higher impact. It represents a expansion for EverClean as we move into ports and harbors on company driven and
and operate a growing pipeline of projects 8% from a year ago. However, the largest of these vessels along the U.S. East Coast, and later on off the West Coast and in the Gulf of Mexico. Much has been written about these vessel bottlenecks that could hamper the offshore wind industry in the years
, opera- The good news is that more than 119 port development sites across the tions & maintenance ports. 35 new offshore wind port projects East Coast, West Coast and the Gulf BNOW estimates that the total cost to address the nation’s offshore wind port infrastructure gap, assuming 2023 construction